israel's military says it will establish humanitarian corridors to allow aid into gaza, amid reports of ever-worsening mass starvation across the territory. president trump is in scotland on the first full day of a private visit where he is mixing golf and meetings with international leaders. and england's lionesses prepare for the euro 2025 final, where they face the world champions, spain, on sunday. hello, i'm carl nasman. israel's military says it will establish "designated humanitarian corridors" to allow the "safe" movement of un convoys carrying

aid into gaza. it comes amid reports of widespead starvation in the territory. the israel defense forces also say they will air-drop aid into gaza tonight. these images supplied by the idf show that action. the first drops will consist of seven pallets including flour, sugar and canned food provided by international aid groups. the head of the united nations relief agency for palestinians called such airdrops a distraction and called for the un and its partners to be able to work in gaza at scale. it's unclear when those humanitarian corridors for un convoys will be set up. humanitarian groups condemn increasing reports of people starving to death. despite mounting evidence, the idf says that claims of starvation in gaza are false. meanwhile, the violence continues. overnight, 53 people were killed in gaza. most of those were shot while seeking aid, according to the hamas-run health ministry and the local ambulance service.

israel does not allow the bbc or other international media into the territory, but hugo bachega sent this report from jerusalem, and it does contain distressing images from the start. a father carries the tiny body of his daughter. zainab abu halib died in gaza because of severe malnutrition and a lack of baby formula, according to her doctor. she was just five months old. inside the nasser hospital, a man carries her dead body, only skin and bone - another victim of a man-made crisis. outside, zainab's parents hold an old picture of her. there was nothing they could do to save her. "if she had enough nutrition, she would have been able to sit up or grow", her mother says. "but it didn't happen. she couldn't get out of bed." as a complication of lack of milk, she got vomiting and diarrhoea.

this has made a lot of dehydration for her case, and she got in severe, acute malnutrition. shouting aid agencies are warning of mass starvation in gaza because of the restrictions on the entry and distribution of supplies imposed by israel. even some of israel's allies are blaming it for this crisis. israel rejects the allegations, but under growing pressure, it has now announced a number of measures to ease the situation. it has resumed the airdrop of aid and says humanitarian corridors are to be created for un convoys to deliver food and medicine. but with acute malnutrition rising and hunger spreading, for some, any help will probably arrive too late. hugo bachega, bbc news, jerusalem. prime minister keir starmer says the uk is working with jordan on plans to airdrop aid into gaza and to evacuate children

in urgent need of medical care. but will airdrops be effective in helping hungry people in the territory? as joe inwood explains, it is a strategy fraught with difficulties. with pallets of aid struggling to enter on the ground, the uk and others will soon start dropping it from the air, repeating scenes we saw last year. but looking at the numbers, you can see why there are serious doubts that this is the solution. in the last round of aid flights, the us air force said each plane carried around 12,600 meals. this means it would take 160 flights every day to provide just one meal a day to the population of gaza. now, the combined transport fleet of the uae and jordanian air forces, who would carry out the drops, is only around 20 aircraft. airdrops could deliver just a tiny fraction of the aid that trucks could. and so there's an obvious solution in gaza, which is to open the borders and allow agencies like the irc, like our partners in the un and humanitarian organisations, to bring aid in and to

distribute it, as we would do in any other crisis zone. aid drops, fundamentally, are a grotesque distraction from that priority. we need access, not airdrops. but it isn't all about scale. it's also about safety. the vast majority of the population of gaza have been squeezed into these areas in the strip, shown in white. that's just about 18 square miles. and these were the scenes during one of the previous airdrops, during which a number of people were killed as aid fell into the sea. airdrops last year turned deadly in a number of incidents, both people drowning in the sea and getting tangled up in parachutes as they tried to collect aid that had blown into the mediterranean. with aid drops, the most vulnerable communities in gaza - women, children, the elderly, the injured, people who are infirm - are unable to go and compete for aid. this footage showing aid at the border was released by israel this week, as they blamed the united

nations for failing to distribute it. now, the un strenuously deny that and, along with most governments, say the fault lies with israel. one of the few things that both sides agree on is that there is enough aid. how to get it to the people of gaza is another question entirely. i am joined by michael capone, the founder of an organisation. great to have you on the bbc. we understand the israeli government has now officially authorised your organisation to resume its operations inside of gaza. how significant is that and why do you think israel is taking an action now? well, nice to meet you, carl. thanks for having me. yes, it's definitely very, very significant. you know, when they proposed these points a few months ago, we were almost going to do it but we had certain conditions. we tried to tell them that if you do

distributions with more than 10000 and 15,000 people at a time, you are going to have chaos and it's going to cause deaths. so to give you a background, in ukraine, we today are distributing to about 1000 different locations per month. we support about 800,000 people, just one organisation. we distribute 350 million meals. and imagine that. that's that many points, and this vhf system, though, was in place before. they only had five points. so when you have five points and you have 2 million people, and you have all of them going to these points, this is basically happening, right? so i think with all of the pressure from the world, from the media, they have finally agreed to let us trial to be able to do this again the way we were doing it before. yes, you mentioned that vhf

there, just interrupting, that's the gaza humanitarian foundation, which has really been the only organisation for many weeks and months now operating within gaza. do you expect that there will be more organisations allowed back in, just like yours, that can begin to really set up more of these distribution sites? well, i certainly hope so, because even though we are mobilising 10 million meals right now, which is a lot, at the amount of people that you have there, we need a lot more support. that's going to be able to get some people buy for a while, but we need to let a lot more organisations come in and do this at some point. i heard earlier you were talking on the show about the air drops. i mean, they've tried every type of system and always asked, the experts in this, that know how to do this better. the air drops aren't going to work. the pier that they built was complete catastrophe. it broke 20 times. so all of these

things are extremely expensive and do nothing, while we, the aid organisations, ring aid directly to the people. it's important to note in 1.5 years we've been operating in gaza, we've only had two trucks polluted, and one, believe it or not, they gave us back, they let us go once they have held it up. so when you look at the percentage of all the trucks we have given over 1.5 years and only two got looted, got to trust us that we know what we're doing. just before i let you go here, in terms of the aid that you are distributing itself, we hear that there is a lack of fuel in the territory. we hear that there is a lack of fresh water in the territory. how that affect the actual items and food that you want to and can give to people? yes, so we have a 23 kg box and then we have water trucks where we buy the water inside gaza, actually, and desalinisation. we test it and it is purified water, so we give those two

things. the gas situation, we have to get it through un agencies, and basically they let us have gas. but the most important is the deacon flexion. and deacon flexion was off-limits for the last couple of months, even for the un. that's why you had all this backlog and all this aid that everybody is filming the border -- deconfliction. it's because it was too dangerous to bring it in. so for the first time now, israel today confirmed that they will d conflict us and they would let our aid come in. we have a proposed plan, these four trucks will go to this density at this time and that area is cleared up and we are protected, and then we basically just drop box directly into people's tents and we bring it to them. you want to not shuffle all these people around the country all day long. and they are tent cities. we have to bring them the aid there. that's the safe

way to do it. that's the gist of it. right, and that is certainly aid that is desperately needed at this point in the territory. michael capponi, the founder and ceo of global empowerment mission, thank you very much for your time tonight. i want to bring in david hale, former under secretary of state for affairs and former special envoy for middle east peace to look at the policy behind what is going on there. i thought it was interesting to hear that at least one aid agency believing that part of what's going on here and the loosening of these restrictions does have to do with some of that international pressure. what do you think about that? well, i think it's probably one of the factors. i also think that the fact that the ceasefire talks have basically sort of petered out for now anyway, so there's no real prospect of any kind of political breakthrough or relief there, has also been a factor. and then there's just the sheer facts on the ground. israelis are not immune to sensitivity at the fact that this situation is so

distressing in gaza. so thank god we finally have some breakthroughs, and hopefully people stop trying to score points against each other politically and actually focus on logistics and security to make this work. but looking a lot of what is aptly being done here, you know, air drops, which are criticised is really ineffective ways of getting 18, humanitarian corridors, which is something that israel has done in the past, why do you think it's taken so long to really ramp up these aid operations once again? i mean, how seriously do you think israel is taking the health and safety of people within gaza? well, i hope they are now. i don't think we should necessarily focus so much on past failures and instead try to encourage positive developments and breakthroughs like we have just seen. but it is true, this was - it took too long. this was long overdue. we can also blame hamas. they could have stopped the fighting days, weeks, months ago, and

none of this would be happening right now. that is still the case right now. so there's a lot of fault to be passed around, but there are also a lot of people dying, and so i think the focus really has to be on how can we try to put the politics into its own channel and focus, as i said, on the security and logistics to deal with this humanitarian crisis. now, you brought up the negotiations around a potential ceasefire, and there are some signals in the past couple of days that the us and israel could be abandoning those negotiations. we heard the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, saying that israel is now looking at alternative options to achieve its war aims. where do you see efforts around a ceasefire right now? does it look to you like the two sides are backing away? well, i'm one of nature's pessimists, and i never really believed the ceasefire talks were going to produce things, because they were focused on very short-term exchanges that were linked to longer term problems. hamas was not going

to give up hostages until it had guarantees about its survival to fight another day, and israel was not going to allow that, so i think that is basically a fundamental problem. i think the trump administration and others deserve credit for not being dismayed by that, and continuing to keep at it for as long as they did. but we still have this problem - hamas will not give up its hostages and remains at this point, so i understand, frankly, why israelis and indeed president trump himself have said that maybe we need to go back to pressure tactics aren't hamas so that they understand there really is no future for them except by surrendering. yes, when it comes to those hostages, there were fresh protests once again in israel again tonight. david hale, former us of state for political affairs and of course former us special envoy for middle east peace, we thank you as always for your time. thank you. to scotland now, where a major security operation ramped up as donald trump played golf

on the first day of his private visit to the country. he took to his turnberry golf course in south ayrshire in the morning, while hundreds of demonstrators gathered in aberdeen and edinburgh to protest against his visit. our scotland editor james cook sent this report. a round of golf here is always expensive. turnberry has some of the highest fees in the country. but when the president is playing, it's next level. after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt last year, donald trump's security shield has been strengthened. the result on this course - more highway than fairway. very few people would argue that a president should have zero leisure time, but this trip is unusual. donald trump is not just in scotland to play golf, but also to promote his own business interests, and it's that aspect of this visit which is particularly controversial. we see the far right and fascism raising its ugly head again. in aberdeen, just down the road

from mr trump's other scottish golf course, his opponents took to the streets. in glasgow, supporters of the palestinian and israeli causes were kept apart by police. and in edinburgh, demonstrators raised concerns about us policy on immigration, gaza and ukraine. as far as i'm concerned, trump is a bully, a racist, and a megalomaniac. he's here on, effectively, a private trip to have a look around his golf courses, and the amount of money that it's costing the scottish taxpayer is absolutely obscene. dealing with president trump's visit and the protest against it has been a tricky business for police scotland, not least for this officer, and there are still three days of the trip to go. james cook, bbc news, turnberry. us president donald trump says cambodia and thailand have agreed to meet and work out a ceasefire after he spoke to both countries' leaders.

thailand's acting prime minister confirmed that, in principle, the thai side agreed to the ceasefire, hours after cambodia had already called for an immediate end to hostilties. thailand and cambodia each accused the other of fresh attacks on saturday - the third day of clashes over the disputed border. in the last hour, the afp reports that artillery fire is continuing. at least 33 people, both soldiers and civilians, have been killed, while thousands of thai and cambodian nationals have been displaced since fighting broke out on thursday. the dispute between the two countries dates back more than 100 years, when the borders of the two nations were drawn during france's occupation of cambodia. our south-east asia correspondent jonathan head is near the thailand-cambodia border for us. well, the thai side has not responded to that. in other words, they're not accepting that at the moment. they haven't made any statement about a ceasefire, they have rejected third-party mediation.

thailand also stresses that there must be a discussion, some sort of dialogue with cambodia, to resolve this - that diplomacy will be needed. but for the moment i think, reading between the lines, thailand has not yet completed its military objectives. and we've seen enormous amounts of thai military activity on the roads around here - great long convoys with battle tanks there, armoured personnel carriers, lots of gun emplacements. they were quiet earlier in the morning, but from about 11:30am local time, a few hours ago, those guns started firing shells over into the cambodian side, quite regular salvos of shells detonating through the air here. and we've been told by the thai military they've also deployed their fighter jets to bomb cambodian positions. the thai view is this - that the cambodians need to be pushed back from positions that they've occupied and they say they've reinforced, and that they won't be happy until they've pummelled them and driven them back, and also that they've destroyed some of the weaponry used

in the rocket attacks on thursday that caused so many civilian casualties on this side. so as far as the thai military is concerned, there is still more fighting needs to be done, even though everyone expects, eventually, diplomacy will have to get the upper hand. the uk has condemned the latest cash offer from authorities in hong kong to people who help in the arrest of pro-democracy activists living in britain. individuals are being offered money for information leading to the arrest of 19 individuals, all of whom are living abroad. in a joint statement, foreign secretary david lammy and home secretary yvette cooper described the move as another example of transnational repression. china has described criticism of its offer as interference. the countdown is on to the euro 2025 final. england will take on spain in the swiss city of basel on sunday. the lionesses are the defending european champions, while spain are the reigning

world champions. england are hoping for redemption, as sunday's match-up is a repeat of the 2023 world cup final. our correspondent emma vardy sent us this update from a fan zone in basel. this is where fans have been coming and going all day, soaking up a bit of the atmosphere and the build-up ahead of the final. this is one of the official fan zones. it's a square down in the old town, in the very picturesque city of basel. over the other side of town, that's where the stadium is. that's where england will be taking on spain in that european final. now, who is playing? let's tell you a bit about it. it's the world champions, spain, taking on the european champions, england, so nobody wants to be called the underdog in this final. and i've been speaking to lots of england fans who watched a couple of years ago at the world cup as spain beat england in the final, and many of them are saying they hope - they're just praying - that it's going to be different this time around.

but regardless of the outcome of that final, in one sense it's already been a big success here in switzerland. lots of praise for the way that switzerland has held this tournament, the kind of atmosphere that's been created here in the fan zones, and it's already set a record for the highest attendance at the women's european championships in its history. and lots of young girls i've been speaking to here who play football, who want to play football, say they're feeling really inspired by just seeing the profile of the game going up and up, the success that it's had, the success that the lionesses have had in recent years. and they're just hoping, after that final, the momentum of the women's game is going to continue. as europe waits to see who will be crowned champions, nigeria has reclaimed its place at the top of african football. in a rollercoaster final, the super falcons defeated morocco in rabat 3-2 to win their tenth continental title. morocco, hosting the tournament, took a 2-0 lead and looked poised to secure its first ever championship.

but nigeria staged a stunning comeback, scoring three goals in just 30 minutes to dash the hosts' dreams. it's another heartbreak for morocco, who also lost the final three years ago to south africa. this next story is striking a chord across the united states. the us air guitar championships are back for another year. the finest air streamers will take to the stage in san francisco in a matter of hours. it is a competition where only the most outrageous moves will bring rock 'n' roll glory. the winner goes on to represent the us at the world championships in finland next month. the annual contest has been running for almost 30 years. joining us life now is last year's champion, cole lindbergh. the reigning us champion. i could see you working out some of your moves there. what exactly makes for a winning air guitar performance? you know, that is a fantastic question, and i am

live backstage here at the us air guitar national championship in san francisco. look, tonight there are going to be 23 competitors that are fighting to win the title of us air guitar champion, and they will be judged on three things. number one, stage presence. you know, i've got a little bit of that. number two, their technical merit. doesn't look like they are actually playing the air guitar, and the last one, number is what they call airness, and really it can't be defined, you just know it when you see it. and so someone tonight is going to win, going to go on to finland to fight for the world championship of air guitar. you know, the who's pete townsend had his signature move, the guitar windmills. what you're going to move? what's your signature move? that's a fantastic question. i have a couple of go to moves, but for me it is all about this, because i like to point a lot, i like to make a silly face, and i will take the guitar up, maybe bite the strings a little bit, maybe

toss it in the air. there is a lot of exciting moves, but for me it is all right here, doing a lot of that. obviously there is no guitar, so you are not playing music. i guess that's obvious, and we can see your performance there. but music obviously is important. what kind of music do you like to play to? i think that music obviously is something that brings all of us together, and what's so great about this is that every performer here tonight has prepared a 62nd performance. and it can be from all different genres of music, but the one thing that binds us all together here is that you've got to have a guitar. we are playing the air guitar, and so you could have something that goes way back super old, something that's brand-new. maybe it's a remix of something. i think a lot of people tonight have a lot of thoughts, like ozzy osbourne recently passed away, i am sure we will hear some black sabbath tonight or something like that. but earlier i was hearing and sound check, and i am pretty sure i heard some song that i don't even think was... i don't even think it was a rock song.

i think it was something totally different. so there's going to be a lot of different genres represented here tonight at the championship. you know, cole, i happen to bring my air guitar with me tonight, luckily. is there anything you could show me? how exactly should i be warming up or getting ready if i want to compete in the us air guitar champion chips? that is a great question, so there's a couple of things i can tell you right now. first of all, technical merit, does it look like you are playing? if it is down here it is low, if it is up here it is high. you're strong, you've got to get that wrist movement action. and from there, you've got to kind of shake your head, really get into it, and you want people to think that you are... weight, is that guy ok, or is he... that is what people will be saying about me, is that they ok? that's what you want. that's what you want. you want everybody to turn their head and look, because this is the most exciting thing that people have never seen. so if they are putting their attention on you, that you are one of us. you could be an air guitar champion. cole

lindbergh, we've got 15 seconds left, you can go ahead and play is out here. good luck. those championships taking place

this week, another round of peace talks between russia and ukraine. they were a little later than we thought they were going to be, and there was limited progress to speak of. and after several weeks of what seemed like really positive momentum for president zelensky on the diplomatic stage, his presidency has come under a whole new level of scrutiny this week over these controversial changes he's made to domestic anti-corruption bodies. we saw thousands of people out on the streets right across ukraine. the eu also voicing its concern. so we'll be asking, could this compromise ukraine's coalition of support just as kyiv has managed to persuade the us to continue arming its defence via nato? we'll be answering all your questions on that,